Here are the next 4 'Star Wars' games through 2018 and beyond

You're not going to be able to escape the reach of "Star Wars"
for a long time.

Put more precisely, there are four new "Star Wars"
games coming out in the next three years or so. —
as in, the same amount of "Star Wars" films were
produced between 1977 and 1999.

As a part of this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), we
got (very
brief!) looks at each one of these new games. These teases
came as a part of Electronic Arts' (EA) press
conference — the company that has exclusive rights to publish
"Star Wars" games for the next ten years. Here are all the
titles we know about so far:

The first is a virtual reality "mission" — a term that's probably
indicative of its length — coming to the PlayStation 4's
PlayStation VR headset later this year. It's being made by DICE
(the company that made the recently released "Star Wars:
Battlefront") and Criterion, who you might know for the "Burnout"
and "Need for Speed" series.

This is how Luke handles
all the "Star Wars: Battlefront" haters.EA

Those of you who weren't fans of the recent multiplayer shooter
"Star Wars: Battlefront" are going to be disappointed — the next
big "Star Wars" game is going to be a sequel to that title,
arriving in 2017. Now, DICE has said it is working to improve on
what the first "Star Wars: Battlefront" delivered, so keep your
fingers crossed that it delivers on that promise.

Extremely early footage of
a brand new "Star Wars" game was shown during Electronic Arts' E3
press conference on Sunday.YouTube/Electronic
Arts

The next truly exciting "Star Wars" game is coming in 2018 (it
will be here sooner than you think!) from Visceral Games, a
company best known for the creepy "Dead Space" series. It's being
lead by Amy Hennig, the head writer and creative director on the
first three games in the massively popular "Uncharted"
series. Just a few seconds of early footage was shown for this
game during EA's press conference, but it looks like it will
be a third-person action adventure game. Though we don't know for
sure, we're betting this one will be a grittier, shooter-style
game, and probably won't feature a lightsaber-wielding
protagonist.

Even farther off is another action-adventure game in early
development by Respawn Entertainment, the company behind the
multiplayer shooter "Titanfall" and the soon-to-be-released
"Titanfall
2." This game is so early in development that the only thing
we saw during E3 was some footage of actors in those snazzy
ping-pong ball motion capture suits. As opposed to the game being
made by Visceral, this one looks like it will prominently feature
Jedi. There's no release date attached to this game yet, likely
because it's still in the early stages of development, but expect
to see this in 2019 or possibly 2020.

"Star Wars: The Old
Republic" will be one of three existing "Star Wars" titles
receiving new content in the near future. No word on whether
these creepy twins will be there.YouTube/Electronic
Arts

If that's not enough to whet your appetite, there will also be
new content for existing "Star Wars" games coming over the next
year or so. That includes:

Three more expansion packs
for "Star Wars: Battlefront"

New content coming to the
mobile strategy game "Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes"

New expansions coming to the massive multiplayer online game
"Star Wars: The Old Republic"

What did we tell you? There's
a lot of "Star Wars" coming your way, so batten down the hatches,
grab a lightsaber, and get to work.